HAVE YOU SEEN KEEF (STANDING IN THE SHADOWS)? THE ROLLING STONES Bootleg 1976

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HAVE YOU SEEN KEEF (STANDING IN THE SHADOWS)? THE ROLLING STONES Bootleg Vinyl LP 1976

This is an auction of collectible vinyl long-playing records. This particular auction includes a single copy of the “No Label” release of HAVE YOU SEEN KEEF (STANDING IN THE SHADOWS)?, a live recording of THE ROLLING STONES made at the Earl’s Court Theatre in London on May 26th, 1976. The record has a white inner label on the vinyl, but the outer cardboard sleeve  is more elaborate than in most bootlegs, with photos on front and back and a tracklist. The bottom of the sleeve back has the notation “With Thanks to the Human Riff Appreciation Society.”

Track list:

          A1     Hand of F ate

          A2     Hey Negrita

          A3     Ain’t Too Proud to Beg

          A4     Fool to cry

          A5     Hot Stuff

B1     News Report from May 19th, 1976

B2     You’ve Got to Move

B3     Happy

B4     Tumbling Dice

B5     Brown Sugar

B6     Jumping Jack Flash

The vinyl is in Excellent condition and has been unplayed and protected inside a polyvinyl bag for more than 20 years. The cardboard sleeve is in Good condition, with a few wrinkles where it has been lightly bent around the record at some point.

I am selling this record on behalf of my friend John D. Berry, who writes: “I bought this collection in the late 1900s from John Ellison, a friend who was working (as I was) as a technical editor at Microsoft. John and his partner Lesley Link were starting a small publishing house, Broken Moon Press, and wanted to raise money to fund this endeavor. John had been a Rolling Stones fan and a devoted record collector, but he decided to sell his collection as part of the publishing effort. I was not especially a Stones fan, but I was willing to buy the collection to help the cause, figuring that I could always re-sell it later, probably for more than I paid.

“John was a very serious collector. Most of these vinyl disks have never been played, and many of them are extremely rare. They all date from no later than the mid-1980s; many of them are from the 1970s or 1960s. Quite a few are bootlegs, unauthorized but tolerated iterations of particular recording sessions or performances. For many years, these bootlegs could not be sold, even when they were approved by the artists; these days, however, that worry seems to be a dead letter, and lots of bootlegs show up on eBay and other selling sites.”

Payment through Paypal preferred. Buyer pays actual postage from Seattle, WA. I’ve done my best to anticipate the weight of safe packing materials for these extremely rare vinyl recordings, but if you are overcharged at any point, I will refund your overpayment. I welcome bids from buyers outside the U.S., and I am especially happy to combine several items to save on international or domestic postage.